@footballforlife Who said I cried? Who said I support Costa Rica? Why are you making things up? I do not care about Costa Rica. I didn't say anything about them (nor about Netherlands). Can't I make a simple statement (I'd call it a fact) that involves a player without being accused of crying because supposedly I'm cheering for the other team?!!

@alexreg Dirty Dutch based on 1 dive that wasn't even in the penalty box? ok lol. Besides Argentina is one of the most boring teams so far at the WC... they started stalling after 20min against Belgium... seriously.

@FaizanBaig1 Incorrect. A penalty shootout is to determine the winner of a match after it has ended without a winner. Penalty shootouts aren't considered part of the match hence why players won't get their goal credited with the rest they have scored in the tournament. So both Robben and RVP will stay on 3 goals for the tournament even thought they scored in the shootout. It may sound stupid but that's how it is.

@mcyeoh92 "Go ahead and dislike me please" My friend, hostility is a word of foreign origin for me. But if you want us to take you seriously, you shouldn't have started this whole "Oh, let me insult everyone who disagrees with me" line of posts.
I like everybody in here so I give you one good piece of advice, if you want people to accept you and your opinions, you gotta be nice to them first.

Got to go with Netherlands for this one if I'm honest. One of the main reasons being, their keeper has been one of the very best keepers in the world for the last couple of years. Seriously, check him out on youtube. The only reason he's not recognized is because he doesn't play for a bigger club. But seriously guys, check him out, you won't be dissapointed.

Costa Rican defense will be compact even though their best defender so far Oscar Duarte is suspended. It will take a lot from Robben et al. to penetrate the 5-men defense let alone very impressive Navas. The Dutch need to be careful of Costa Rican counter attacks as they have only 3 men guarding the back line. I think Dutchmen will win though, due to experience and vast individual skills of Robben, Persie, Kuyt and Sneijder compared to spirited Costa Ricans.

It would be a shame if netherland won the world cup playing such awful football. All these years they played attractive football and lost, and now when they play ugly football they have a chance to win.... That's just stupid.

@wawa Gotta love how you posted the same below virtually every other quarter final game comment section. This guy right here has shown us persitence, gentlemen. May they be celebrated as the insiting person they are.
Seriously now though, I have to admit, I'm more a fan of possession, or Tiqui-Taca, if you want to call it that, as well, but what exactly makes you think of the dutch way of playing this beautiful game as ugly? THey have been offering a lot of considerably respectable perfomances.
Gotta give them at least that before describing their way of play as ugly.

While I love the Netherlands this time around and enjoy watching their counter attacks I have the feeling that Costa Rica could cause an upset here, much like Australia, being a team that prefers to hit the opponent on the break as well.
THis will be highly interesting to watch as van Gaal's team will have to adapt to being the playmaking team today. But I do think their individual class will mark it down in the end. Wouldn't put my money on it, but I have the feeling that Robben will be on fire once more tonight.

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